Isaipriya

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India's Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC), which regulates the public exhibition of films in the country, declined to certify the film Porkalathil Oru Poo on May 27, 2015, citing the possibility that it could harm "friendly relations with foreign States," the English-language daily The Hindureported.

Back in
November 2010, Britain's Channel 4 broadcast a leaked video that appears to show men
in Sri Lankan military uniforms executing bound prisoners, the camera panning
across a series of bodies laid out in a ditch. Family and friends identified
one of those bodies as that of Tamil Tiger TV newscaster
Shoba, also known as
Isaipriya. If authenticated, the video could constitute evidence that Isaipriya
was murdered. It would be one step toward accountability in a long string of
unsolved murders of journalists in Sri Lanka. It would also be evidence of war crimes that
are said to have been committed during the final phases of the 27-year civil
war between the Sri Lankan government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam,
or LTTE. But disputes have
ensued between the United Nations, which claims the video is authentic, and the
Sri Lankan government, which claims that it is fake.